The Pentagon has planned to destroy around $1 billion dollars worth of ammo since April 2014, all because they say there is no system in place to share them across different branches of our armed forces.
“Despite years of effort, the Army, Navy and Air Force still don’t have an efficient process for doing something as basic as sharing excess bullets. This Government Accountability Office (GAO) report clearly shows that our military’s antiquated systems lead to millions of dollars in wasteful ammunition purchases.” states Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
And how much did DHS purchase?
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the u n will tell people anything to get by I you look today all this ammunition is in the hands of our enemys the gov tries to blow smoke up every ones ass because no one will stand up against the gov if any one cared we would get togeather and be heard I am game all the way
Total BS & A WASTE OF THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS MONEY..STOP THIS WASTE, NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think the should unmothball vietnam era choppers with a gun that put out 30 thousand rounds per minute and use them to turn Isis into rubble.
Give it to the Cops in Ferguson they are short 6 rounds
i AM NOT WILLING TO GIVE THIS TO THE POLICE…They need to realize they are to protect us, not to terrorize us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Senseless!
give it to the citizens that paid for it
They are NOT DESTROYING it. I was in the military in Canada and that is how you account for lost or misplaced munitions
mor government waste
Typical gov’t screw up. hopefully they do destroy it and don’t sell it to ISIS or some other enemy of our country. what a waist of tax dollars. why is it so hard for our gov’t to be smart with all the college edumacated idiots running these programs.